GENERATESERIES is a useful DAX function when you need to create a table with a series of values. Let’s go through how to use it.
In Power BI Desktop, go to the Modeling tab and select New Table:
Enter GENERATESERIES, and we can see the parameters it takes is:
- StartValue. This is the first row value of our new table.
- EndValue. This is the last row value of our new table.
- IncrementValue. This is the optional value of how much we want to increment. The default is 1.
For example, if we wanted to generate a table of values from 1 to 100, we can do:
GENERATESERIES(1,100)
If we wanted increments of 9, we could do:
Table = GENERATESERIES(1, 100, 9)
Once the table is generated, we can add new columns etc as with any other table.
